Password encryption in fetchmail ?

kssuhesh · 05-21-2008, 11:49 AM

Hai to all

I have to maintain a local mailserver on my office environment for enhancing the mail speed. I installed fetchmail for fetching mails from my mailserver. Now all the things are working OK. But because of security prolem I don't have to keep the passwords of the users in .fetchmailrc . Is there any option for giving encrypted password in the password field of .fetchmailrc ...........

Thanks in Advance
Suhesh.K.S.

theYinYeti · 05-22-2008, 05:14 AM

Why? User root is you, no? The file is owned by root and placed in /root. The latter directory is already protected against any access other than those by root. As for the file, simply change its rights to 0600.

Yves.

kssuhesh · 05-22-2008, 06:15 AM

I am root but if anyone hacked into the system the passwords are casually read. Me have to avoid that because it ontains a lot of user passwords.